Series of Works

about paradise

Photography, video, rendering (CGI)

2012

<em>about paradise I, Filmstill (ap.I-1)</em> (50.02.1.1), 2012
about paradise I, Filmstill (ap.I-1) (50.02.1.1), 2012

Text: Maja Weyermann, taken from the artist’s online presence, 2012

The video works about about paradise I and about paradise II are based on conversations with Iranian carpet traders in Hamburg. In these conversations, the central theme is the relationship between personal and cultural memory, shedding light on the connection between cultural memory and the construction of space (with space being the result of social relationships, arising from the acts of individuals or groups). The films about paradise I/II lead us associatively from the real situation of the carpet traders in Hamburg, through to the carpet as a consumer item, and thence to the ideas and emotions the carpets inspire in the traders as artefacts of cultural memory. The combination of 3D and video is constructed in such a way that the two cannot always be differentiated from one another. This makes it possible for us to perceive the overlapping of the visible and the invisible, of the abstract and the concrete, and of memory and presence.

The project about paradise has been kindly supported by the collaborative research centre SFB 586 Differenz und Integration at the universities of Leipzig und Halle-Wittenberg, the German Research Foundation and the Institute of Anthropology at the Unversity of Leipzig.


Please check out the project website for more detailed information:
www.majaweyermann.org/archive/real-time-nomads.com.

Artworks (12) in the Series

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